anand84 - 7:13 am on Jan 1, 2010 (gmt 0)

We have a website that we are looking to submit into Google News. One of the technical requirements was to have a News Sitemap XML file submitted to the Google Webmaster tools.

Since the website is built on a Wordpress platform, I was able to find a plugin to do that and now actually have a Google News Sitemap generated which displays correctly.

However, when it is added to the webmaster tools, the sitemap does not seem to be recognized.

This is apparently more of a bug with the software than a problem at my end. This is because while the default RSS feed for wordpress websites (www.example.com/feed) is recognized for one website, the same is not recognized as a sitemap for the other.

So, I would like to know how if our submission will be affected because of this. There is nothing I can about it since it seems to be out of my control.